Rockefeller Bill Would Gut the EPA Rockefeller Bill Would Gut the EPA
Implore your Senators to vote against any legislation that would block the EPA from regulating carbon dioxide.
Mar 16, 2011 / Peter Rothberg
Christian Parenti: Fukushima in America? Christian Parenti: Fukushima in America?
America's nuclear power plants are poorly managed and regulated, and it's time they were taken out of commission.
Mar 16, 2011 / The Ed Show
No Nukes Is Good Nukes No Nukes Is Good Nukes
Sorry, President Obama, but there is a dimension of fear properly associated with the word nuclear that is not matched by any oil spill.
Mar 16, 2011 / Robert Scheer
Burying Our Heads in Radioactive Sand Burying Our Heads in Radioactive Sand
Is Earth becoming Easter Island?
Mar 15, 2011 / Leslie Savan
After Disaster in Japan, GOP Pushes For Emergency Services Cuts After Disaster in Japan, GOP Pushes For Emergency Services Cuts
If the GOP succeeds in cutting back funding for agencies that regulate building standards and facilitate emergency evacuation, how will the US fare in the next unanticipated disa...
Mar 15, 2011 / Press Room
From Hiroshima to Fukushima From Hiroshima to Fukushima
The problem with mankind wielding nuclear power isn’t about backup generators or safety rules—it’s our essential human fallibility.
Mar 15, 2011 / Jonathan Schell
Fukushima’s Spent Fuel Rods Pose Grave Danger Fukushima’s Spent Fuel Rods Pose Grave Danger
Even if reactor containment vessels hold, pools of spent fuel rods could combust and release clouds of radioactive cesium into the air—a calamity that could happen at US nucl...
Mar 15, 2011 / Christian Parenti
Nuclear Hubris: Could Japan’s Disaster Happen Here? Nuclear Hubris: Could Japan’s Disaster Happen Here?
The US has twenty-three reactors of the same design as the Fukushima No. 1 reactor that is now in partial meltdown, and our federal regulators are captives of the nuclear industry.
Mar 14, 2011 / Christian Parenti
Naomi Klein: Environmental Destruction Thrives in a Free-Trade World Naomi Klein: Environmental Destruction Thrives in a Free-Trade World
To confront climate change we need to completely restructure our economic system.
Mar 9, 2011 / Press Room
Naomi Klein: Environmental Destruction Thrives in a Free-Trade World Naomi Klein: Environmental Destruction Thrives in a Free-Trade World
To confront climate change we need to completely restructure our economic system.
Mar 9, 2011 / Democracy Now!